UKY script--draft #1 ... Comments from Nestor

Tom Coffin tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue Aug 17 12:07:55 CDT 1999


At 10:56 AM 8/17/99 -0600, John A. Greenfield wrote:
   >On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Tom Coffin wrote:
   >
   >> At 11:27 AM 8/17/99 -0500, Robert Olson wrote:
   >>    >
   >>    >>
   >>    >>But it does allow the remote  user complete screen control
   >>    >>independent of platform of the viewer and presenter. I'm sure
everyone
   >>    >>knows about this, but thought I would add my 2 cents.
   >>    >
   >>    >
   >>    >I've actually got some technical solutions to this in mind, that
work if 
   >>    >the original presentation is in ppt. One can make powerpoint
export a
   >> slide 
   >>    >as a bitmap/jpeg at an arbitrary resolution, so given a
presentation, one 
   >>    >could export the whole thing as a series of images (including the 
   >>    >transitions, I think). Then all we'd need is a simple viewer
client that 
   >>    >would show the images, and accept either local input for a
master, or 
   >>    >remote slide-change events for a client. This could be done via a
shared 
   >>    >web browser as well.
   >>    >
   >>    >Just a SMOP ...
   >>    >
   >>    >(simple matter of programming)
   >>    >
   >>    >--bob
   >>    >
   >>    >
   >> 
   >> That's what Tango does!
   >> 
   >>
   >
   >Yes, Unfortuneately it also takes over the entire display, which is a
   >major problem given the way we are doing display.
   > 
 
??? - It doesn't take over my display - I can resize any of the
browser windows Tango introduces


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Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu



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